Comments on: I’m on Watchdog

By: Roo Reynolds - Behind the Scenes at the One Show

Roo Reynolds - Behind the Scenes at the One Show — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:35:34 +0000

[...] seen me venture on to the Watchdog set (twice), Ciarán Ryan (content producer at The One Show) recently emailed me to suggest I might [...]

By: Roo

Roo — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:06:35 +0000

bbc.co.uk/watchdog/gotastory? :-)

By: James Taylor

James Taylor — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:19:58 +0000

That reminds me- I’ve been meaning to get Watchdog on to the case of reverse charge SMS messages. If you could shuffle it to the top of the pile next time you’re loitering on set, that’d be great!

By: Cheesy

Cheesy — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:31:43 +0000

Thanks for the background, I have to say that I am so jealous! While I have no desire to be on TV, I’d *really* love to watch a live show being broadcast, from both the floor and the gallery. I’ve been backstage at many a theatre production, but you guys have more fun toys ;)

By: Roo

Roo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:01:25 +0000

Honestly, when I bumped in to you at 7:30, I really wasn’t expecting to get on air. My purpose was to chat with the editor and web producer. That said, now that I’ve tasted live TV, my sinister purposes for next week are pretty obvious. :-)

By: Trippenbach

Trippenbach — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:27:49 +0000

Ah! So *that’s* what you were doing lurking around the set last night . . . Roo’s sinister purposes revealed!

By: roo

roo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:55:58 +0000

Ralph: my presence was something of an anomaly. I have actually done quite a bit of work with Watchdog recently, so it’s not as artificial as it seems. I shall check, but I believe most of the people seen are actual Watchdog staff. Those other desks (far right of the scene above) do seem to be the actual Watchdog staff desks. (Researchers, etc.) How much they’re there working late, and how much they’re as terrified as I was of the cameras, the live broadcast, and thinking of little other than looking busy for the camera is hard to tell.

Mark: my contract explicity states that I don’t get paid any extra for appearing on screen. No idea what the situation was for the other people in the room.

By: Mark Cathcart

Mark Cathcart — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:42:11 +0000

Err, were you paid the statutory £25 walk-on fee? Otherwise isn’t that a breach of union regulations? Extras…

By: Ralph Corderoy

Ralph Corderoy — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:26:56 +0000

Hold on Roo, are you saying that those earnest looking people in the background are just props? Mere passing flotsam? The impression given is that these are hard working Watchdog researchers, paid for by me, the licence payer. I’m being mislead by the BBC! First Cookie-gate, now this!

Think I’ll complain to Watchdog. Ah no, wait. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

By: Cait

Cait — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:38:56 +0000

I used to go on Sky News alot when I was younger, slimmer and the internet was a bit “Oooh, weird”. It is compeltely *insane*, is live TV.

When they ask you questions, it’s almost as if a great yawning black hole opens in front of you, waiting to swallow you up if there’s more thna 1/4 of a second of dead air space. There isn’t though, because something in your brain just makes you talk. Even if it’s a load of cobblers.

THere’s also a weird thing which is like some sort of emergency fuse-blow mechanism in your brain which does not allow you to swear, regardless of the fact that you are *insanely* stressed out.

The only way I used to get away with it was by never watching Sky News. That way it didn’t seem real, somehow.